[Development] RFC: Proposal for a semi-radical change in Qt APIs taking strings

[Konstantin Ritt]

2015-10-15 17:52 GMT+03:00 André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl>:

> Op 15-10-2015 om 14:52 schreef Konstantin Ritt:
> >
> >
> > For everything but US-ASCII / Latin-1, UTF-8 isn't faster than UTF-16
> > (feel free to compare their complexity against UTF-32).
> > And why "pure Chinese signs" again? Did you ever look into the
> > Unicode's Scripts.txt [1], for example? It clearly shows UTF-16 covers
> > [almost] all spoken languages, without any performance hits (in
> > compare to UTF-8), and all we have to pay is an extra byte per every
> > Base Latin character (in compare to UTF-8, again).
> >
> > [1] http://www.unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt
> >
> "All we have to pay"? Isn't that quite a significant cost, if your every
> other byte in your data is going to be null?


Only for US-ASCII / Latin-1.

Regards,
Konstantin
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